Flight number record

DL 2221

Delta Air Lines · Nashville to Minneapolis

Route: BNA → MSP
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2221, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2221 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 19 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2221's record is 19 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 185 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

96.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights

Avg delay

114 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.92%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Schedule

When DL 2221 flies

DL 2221 is scheduled to leave Nashville (BNA) at 06:00 local time and reach Minneapolis (MSP) at 08:12. That slot held for 302 of the 365 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.

Departs 06:00302 flights82.7%
Departs 07:0057 flights15.6%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2221 runs 7 points better at 96.1%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 2221 next to BNA to MSP

Every carrier on BNA to MSP combined arrived on time 83.3% of the time across 1,721 flights, so DL 2221 is 13 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,213 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 15 points.

DL 2221 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2221	365	96.1%	114 min	1.92%	A
All Delta Air Lines on BNA–MSP	1,213	86.9%	64 min	1.57%	A
All carriers on BNA–MSP	1,721	83.3%	55 min	1.39%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2221 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2221 held fairly steady: 98.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 96.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights98.9%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights94.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.7%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2221 ranged from 92.5% on Tuesday to 100.0% on Thursday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2221 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 89% of the 1,597 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
89%
National Airspace System
9%
Late-arriving aircraft
1%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 89%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,419 of the 1,597 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,597 delay minutes reported on DL 2221.

Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The 695 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

Every one of the 365 flights under DL 2221 in the data flew BNA to MSP. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking DL 2221

For a booking, read DL 2221 as 96.1% on time with 1.92% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

A flight number here means Delta Air Lines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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